You can report a sanitation code violation to the City by using this form or by calling 311. Sanitation code violations include:

• Setting out trash or recycling at the wrong time.
• Setting out too much trash.
• Putting the wrong items in trash or recycling.
• Using the wrong kind of trash or recycling container.
• Putting household trash in a public wastebasket.
• Improper disposing of construction debris.
• Dumpsters without proper identification or a medallion.
• Dumpsters that are improperly maintained.

View the residential trash and recycling rules for more details.

Once you submit a request, the Department of Sanitation will investigate. Depending on the violation and identifying evidence found, the offending party may be fined.